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If I am not mistaken, entities are not valid in RSS feeds. The TWiki feed info at Synic8 shows only "Last changed by" for description. I changed &nbsp; to <nop> which should get removed. Lets see if Syndic8 picks up the description now.

I also moved the "Last changed by" part to the end of the description, I find the summary more useful than the contributor name (which is also available in other fields).

I don't find the summary useful as long as it always stays the same. It would be improved if it showed the last changes.
And because each summary has a different length, the contributor name now hops position, which is not easy to scan.

This has been for months in use in Codev. Why did you not give feedback there?

it's not that entities aren't allowed in rss feeds, it's just that xml doesn't predefine entities like html does; they'll either need to be defined in the xml (the rss feed itself), or they'll need to use numeric entity identifiers. CPAN:HTML::Entities can provide this mapping.

The channel and item titles in RSS, like their counterpart in HTML, are considered metadata and therefore are not expected to have display elements such as HTML tags. Embedding markup, even encoded with CDATA, could break an end user's application with your feed. Keep HTML in the description only, if at all.
(source: http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2002/11/19/rssfeedquality.html?page=2)

This is part of the RSS 2.0 Specification that you can find at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss. The advantage is that RSS Readers can display the author of the edit in a separate column, which comes handy when using it with TWiki. At the moment the column says "Peter Thoeny" (as he is the channel creator).

(Hopefully it comes out ok, I'll edit the topic so it does if need be).

Just a "simple" matter of "triple-escaping": escape once for TWiki, escape once for RSS/XML, escape once for HTML (probably another level in there somewhere). It's not perfect, since it trips up on HTML named entities, (e.g.) &eacute;.

I had a go at this to see if I could get the RSS to render properly in Galeon (probably works in Firefox and others too).

Oh, I forgot, a) you can see an example of it. I have an &eacute; in there, and when I went to see it in skin=rss, it buggered all over my screen because of that "accent". I had a b) but I forgot it now.

Thanks for contributing this. I will take the exclude topic into DakarRelease. Altough I'd like to take dc:creator into Dakar, I will pass on it because of performance. WebRss is hit many times, and nested searches can be slow.

A naive question, perhaps, but "Is it possible for the RSS news feed to present some info instead of or in addition to the topic name?" The topic name is all I see on my Google home page in the RSS feed of http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebRss. I'd like subscribers to our internal RSS to see more than, e.g., HasanAlMatrouk. The first line line of the page might be an appropriate substitute or addition. -- Jared